carolina. i am able to move the ball. i don't think that there is any reason why women -- we don't see a lot of women come outside the fact that women just don't run. we need more women in office and more real people in office. more business people. we don't need these people that think about being a politician, we need people who have lived their lives and know the problems. >> as soon as you got into the state legislature, you were successful in terms of moving up into leadership. as soon as you started insisting on transparency in how the legislators were voting, he ran into a firestorm. >> it was one of those first things that no one knew what to make up. of. i had defeated their friends. nobody wanted to share an office with me in order sit at a desk with me. there happened to be another person who had defeated the majority leader. we were that few outsiders and we quickly became desk and office mates, and when i got there, i saw a lot of things that i thought were wrong. one was in south

mark in durham north carolina.hello. >> calling from north carolina with suggestion on how to deal with the confusion about the for versus against on the marriage amendment. >> okay. >> put obama bumper stickers in the lower-right-hand corner of the sign so it is clear who's side you are on. >> so we want to vote against. >> vote yes or no. >> no! attention north carolina vote against amendment one. thank you. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> thank you. all right. let's go to vince in norfolk, virginia. >> hey steph. president obama is straight out of central casting. whenever you see like a black president in a movie, or a black police chief they are always calm, cool wise. you know this guy is everything we have ever written -- >> yeah i love the specials on the bin laden raid. i don't know if you saw the interview -- >> yeah i did. calm, cool even when he was asked the question about were you elated upon his death. he took time to answer it. he said i wouldn't say it was a high five -- this guy is like writing th

. >> north carolina is an outlier.ut of 34 times when gay marriage has been defeated. didn't matter if bill clinton did robo calls and explained it had nothing to do -- how many times can you say something is illegal? it was already illegal. but that's never the point. this is about what karl rove said in 2004. you put these things on the ballot, they were on 12 ballots in 2004. that tipped the vote in ohio. you had a caller a minute ago who points out the president may say that he's evolving on this and he's struggling with it. but count on the fact that if this does depress african-american turnout, even by a couple of points, if he were to come out before the election and do what joe biden did on sunday and say it doesn't matter to me, then that's a problem for a potential mitt romney presidency. that's what we're dealing with. >> stephanie: so david if you were advising the president as you have campaigned since rutherford b. hayes, what would you tell him on the issue of marriage equality? >> i told rutherford b.

we don't have those in north carolina. we have a handful of cities and counties out of the 625 cities and counties that have what they call domestic partner benefits. but the measure would not prohibit those cities and counties frombenefits if they do it in a different way. objective criteria, who lives in the household. >> but if it's the same in the end, if you have to say these benefits go to someone who pays rent in my house or someone i share my home or roommate, there is still a partner, so in the if they get the benefit why all the fuss going through this? >> well, i don't consider it a fuss at all to re-establish marriage in north carolina as one man and one woman. also prohibits polygamy. that is the best environment for raising children in a society. >> what many people don't seem to know, amendment one would dissolve partnerships of straight couples. >> i don't know what you mean by that. the amendment specifically allows contracts between individuals to be enforced if you would tell me what you mean i could add

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so everybody is safe in north carolina this morning. whoo!>> they stopped evolution for another year. >> we're going to stop evolution from happening. >> we can't let it happen. >> i'm not though. i'm going to the middle of the country. i'm going to minneapolis. >> right you are. >> stephanie: i'm going to minnesota. >> downtown at one of the theatres. >> stephanie: you know what? everybody likes to bring a dish to pass when we do sexy liberal in minneapolis. kate and rad made their own promo. let's see my lovely talented girlfriend asked me to send promo. >> hello. high ya, sandy. oh yeah, i'm ready for the sexy liberal show. i even shaved my legs this month. ya! because you know i got the v.i.p. meet and grope tickets. ya, you betcha i did! oh, did you hear that stephanie is single now? ya! ya! ya! i don't think she would be interested sandy. i hear she likes them real young. like lindsay lohan young and pretty. okay then. i'll see you about noon on saturday. we gotta get that sexy on early. whoop whoop. stephanie miller sexy liberal at sta

here's south carolina. so we have got a u.s. fort in south carolina. it's all part of the united states. south carolina secedes but you have a u.s. military installation there. what do you do with it? if you're the north you're like, no way, we're not letting go. you can't tell us to leave. south carolina is saying we're not part of the united states anymore. you might as well have a u.s. military installation in mexico. it's just not going to happen. you're not allowed to do that without our permission. so what's happening is the guys in the u.s. army who are stationed at ft. sumter are saying, we stay. in some cases you'll get forts like in texas where everybody kind of goes home. if you're from the north, you can go home to the north. if you're in the south, you can stay here. a whole bunch of weapons we'll confiscate. texas will use them, thank you very much. it comes to a head in certain spots though. florida it came to a head and it really comes to a head in charleston harbor at ft. sumter. that becomes the sticking point. that becomes that crisi

and north carolina has a demmic governor. don't think there has been enough education around -- about it. and the fact that they already have a gay ban in place. this is basically republican mischief, and in 2004 the fact that there was gay marriage on the ballot in a number of places including ohio a lot of democrats think that kerry would have won ohio if that gay marriage issue wasn't there. this issue can burn. i don't think it can burn as much as it did in '04, but in selective places it is very important to people and i think that if -- if the president gets out too far in front, it hurts him with swing voters with african-americans, with hispanics. they are not as far out on this issue as a lot of us urban dwellers. >> richard lugar has lost in his primary to richard murdoch. if you can tell us the impact of that and really the tea party side of it. >> the tea party has lost a lot -- lot of its strength i think but it can still be powerful in a lot of places -- >> and richard lugar was the longest-serving republican --

host: we'll go to our north carolina line for our voters in north carolina.avid is waiting on the independent line. he wants to talk to our pope. caller: good morning. i am an independent thinker. long time resident of north carolina. you have not really mentioned the onslaught that conservatives had to withstand from the media. just a few years ago, we had our first republican governor in north carolina. now have a republican legislature. all we are trying to do is level the field of ideas. i think you have been instrumental in doing that. i wonder seeking comment about the other forces that are impacting, if you well, the media, the newspapers. people like that. i will hang up. thank you. guest: well, in north carolina, like in many states, at the national level, our main newspapers do strongly leaned liberal or democratic. for years, the only endorsed democratic candidates. occasionally, now they endorse republicans. the media is predominately for liberal policies and of the democratic party. we have had a situation where the left started attacking republi

find south carolina and weave your way down. i will never ask you, all right, did texas go in january or february? all right. i'm far more interested in why texas goes than exact month texas goes. you know this. south carolina is the first out in december of 1860. then you're going to get mississippi is going to be next. and kind of that heart moving down from south carolina, the deep south where you get georgia, florida, alabama, louisiana, and then in february you're going to get texas. so what you'll have -- let me jump to this map maybe. maybe not. what you'll end up seeing with the deep south -- now it's going. picture the map. south carolina on down to texas, those are going to be the first seven states of the confederacy. remember, because those states when they go, they go in direct response to lincoln's election, okay? they see lincoln and what they argue is that the country is falling apart and the only way to preserve the principles of the founders is to cut away the basically decaying part of the country, all right?

we've had a huge early turnout good nor north carolina and voters.the end of the day we'll know. we have seven or eight more hours of voting and i'm urging everybody to get out and vote no in north carolina. this hurts our brand. our state has been known around america and around the world as a prossive leader, inviting state. the hub of business and opportunity. this is bad for business. >> do you think that the democratic party should hold its convention in this state if it ends up passing a constitutional amendment like this? let me ask you this? do you think charlotte if this amendment was on the books works that have cost charlotte the democratic convention? >> no. charlotte was chosen because of the spirit of north carolina, and because the president and his team really has, had great experience in this state. nobody thought he could carry this state in 2008. he's going to carry the state in 2012. the conventional going to give a lot of people an opportunity to see north carolina. it will give us a showcase around the world a great place to com

in north carolina, the focus is on an amendment to ban gay marriage in the state of north carolina even though it's already banned there. much of the campaign against the aents-gay amendment has focused on the fact that it's language would not just ban marriage rights for same sex couple, it would ban all legal rights for all unmarried couples in the state. there are hundreds of thousands of unmarried couples who have some recognized legal status whether it's around child custody or police and prosecutor being able to protect you against domestic violence. that point about unmarried couples who aren't gay, that point said the anti-gay amendment will hurt them in north carolina by making the state an unattractive place to recruit top talent to work, those arguments and not the gay rights arguments were the focus of this robo call from bill clinton. >> i'm calling to urge you to vote against amendment one. fp it passes it won't change north carolina's law on marriage. what it will change is north carolina's ability to keep good businesses, attract new jobs and attract and keep talented en

this as north carolina votes today on defining marriage as being only between a man and a woman. >>> and the scramble to find out what al qaeda is up to in the wake of a yemen plot to blow up planes in the u.s. using a device undetectable by those airport security scanners. what it means for flyers here at home. >>> and astounding new statistics on obesity in america, the price tag in terms of health costs staggering. >>> hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. a lot on the agenda this morning. we get straight to it. now that he's off the campaign trail, it appears that rick santorum is a late-night kind of guy. his first appearance since endorsing former rival mitt romney will be later today on "the tonight show" with jay leno. santorum's written endorsement was also released while many of you are probably sleeping. he didn't get to the actual endorsement part until paragraph 13. in that part he wrote, above all else, we both agree that president obama must be defeated, the task will not be easy, it will require all hands on deck if our moum is to be victorious. joining me for today's po

caller: north carolina is a beautiful state.ith the mayor that president obama inherited a bad hand. however, i will call it political spin to say that because the unemployment rate is coming down, his policies are working. because the unemployment rate has been coming down because the labor force has been shrinking because people are dropping out. now, i'm 64 years old so i remember that ronald reagan came into office and he inherited an economic situation similar to that which obama inherited. the unemployment rate reached 10.8% early in his presidency. but his prescription was almost the exact opposite of obama's. his prescription was smaller government, lower taxes and less government regulation. and 3 1/2 years into his presidency, our economy was creating more than 300,000 jobs a month despite the fact that the population of the country was smaller then than it is now. host: i'll stop you there. thank you for the call and the comment. mayor foxx said one of the pages that the romney campaign hopes to use in 2012, a compari

, north carolina, louisiana and kansas were free. they were freed by the act of congress no longer do you have contraband, they're now free persons. that's by law. they are freed persons. lincoln would meet with the cabinet on july 22, 1862, explained that he was going to issue the emancipation proclamation immediately. one of the members, secretary of state, he himself had helped some individuals escape along the underground railroad advised lincoln not to issue that at that time. he tells the president that after these great disasters of the war, after these humiliating defeats if you issue that proclamation it will be viewed as the exhausted government, a cry for help. the governments extending out to hands out to ethiopia rather than under the government. the secretary said to wait for a military success that would mass, that would hide the cry for help. president lincoln calling it a practical war measure considered this wise advice. lincoln waited to claim his victory and he'd claim it on the bloodiest day. september 17, 1862,

chairman steele, i want to remind everybody about north carolina voting today on amendment one. that defines marriage between a man and a woman. the president hasn't taken a firm stance on marriage equality. but he has come out against amendment one. if the president does voice support of marriage equality, does he risk alienating voters in key battleground states like north carolina, florida, virginia? >> yes, he does. that's the political calculation here. i would agree with my friend jonathan capehart on the substance of it in terms of what the president should do. we all know where he stands. this idea floating around washington that the president is going to come out for supporting gay marriage after the election is just inane. people looking for principle leadership, if it's a part of your core, we expect you to stand firm in it, regardless of what the polls say or how a particular group in a battleground state may interpret it. the reality is right now, the country is looking for principled leadership as much as people want to jam up mitt romney on what happened in that l

it is election day in north carolina.e decide if the state should become the 31st with a constitutional amendment that says marriage should be between a man and a woman. it has been hotly contested with spending by both sides topping $3 million. it's a lot of money to ban same-sex marriage. especially since it's already been banned. that's right. the state already banned gay marriage in 1996. and this amendment doesn't just reban it, it also rurts civil unions and domestic partnerships for straight couples as well as for gay ones. one of the most vocal opponent of the amendment has been democratic governor bev perdue, who called it bad for families in an ad released last month. but unfortunately, it is just the latest extreme proposal she's had to fight back against. republicans of north carolina have been on a right wing thrill ride since taking over the state legislature in 2010. but governor purdue has vetoed a record 16 bills to protect the people in her state. bills with new abortion restrictions. a voter id bill. an

, north carolina, louisiana, and kansas were free. they were freed by the act of congress. no quloerng do you ha no longer do you have contraband. they are free pernss. that's blaw. they are free persons. lincoln would meet with his cabinet on july 2nd 1862, explained to his cabinet he's going to issue the emancipation proclamation zantly. william seward, he himself had helped some individuals escape along the underground railroad advised president lincoln not to issue the proclamation at that time for very clear political reasons. he tells the president that after these great disasters of the war after these humiliating defeats if you issue that proclamation "it will be viewed in the mind of the people as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help. the government stretching out its hands unto ethiopia instead of ethiopia stretching out her hands unto the government." ethiopia was commonly used to refer to persons of not descent. general seward asked him to wait for a -- president lincoln called the prokplace a war me

i've lived in north carolina all my life. i'm also a licensed attorney.upreme court judges here in north carolina are some of the most conservative in the country. they won't be coming out to activate against gays and lesbians in the state. they will be -- as it will be for 150 years in the state a statute banning same-sex marriage and reaffirmed again 15 years ago. so there are two state statutes banning same-sex marriage. and for us, this isn't about marriage. it's about protections being threatened for all unmarried couples in the state as a result of an overreaching amendment that we're voting on here today and hopefully voting against. >> the country's attitudes on gay marriage seem to be changing as well. in a "wall street journal" poll three years ago, 41% said they approved it. now it's reversed. among african-americans specifically, the biggest jump from 32% to 50%. does this amendment that's being proposed there in north carolina, does it go against the changing tide in this country, jen? >> obviously public opinion has shifted considerably, eve

north carolina can do better.ton asking you to please vote against amendment one. >> but some argue the amendment is far more complicated and would have broader consequences. >> reporter: on tuesday north carolina voters will be making a big decision at the polls. the decision to change the state's constitution. amendment one would make marriage between one man and one woman the only recognized domestic legal union in the state. >> the reason we have to put it in other state constitution is that half a dozen other states have by judicial -- had a handful of judges change the laws of those states. >> it's something several other states have done, but amendment one goes a step further. not only would it ban same-sex marriage, which is already illegal many north carolina. it would also invalidate all civil unions and domestic partnerships. >> this is a bad law because it will hurt even heterosexual families because it does not recognize any other domestic union. >> the measure raises all kinds of legal questions and

been together 45 years will share their reaction to the north carolina north carolina vote to ban marriageality and today's announcement by the president. they will share that, along with zack walls, who will give us his reaction and both of his mother's reactions. and the rewrite tonight, the fox news host who says president obama is on the right side of history. coming up. [ male announcer ] at home, you play a lot of roles. [ son ] mom, computer's broke! where's i.t. mom? she quit. [ male announcer ] even with technology -- it's all you. that's why you've got us. get up to $200 dollars off select computers. staples that was easy. today training depends on technology. and when it takes a battery, there are athletes everywhere who trust duracell. they rely on copper to go for the gold. duracell. trusted everywhere. i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea

there could be fallout in north carolina., yes, they also blow they can make up for that with young voters, the president kicked off the rallies on saturday kicking off the campaign, two college campuses. and the college democrats and college republicans often oppose each other but coming together on an issue like same-sex marriage and something to watch, african-american turn out. if you look at poll this is a significant majority of african-american voter whose do not support same-sex marriage. obviously they are counting on a big turn out among the african-american voters. the white house insists it will not hurt town out with african-american voters but that is something to watch. >>neil: great reporting, ed. where is romney? he is expected to take questions from reporters and this will come out, oklahoma city, i apologize and he will take questions on this, no doubt, and mitt romney will also be my special guest on this show tomorrow. and the race was already mechanic -- neck and neck. do you take the focus off the econo

northwe'll go to our carolina line for our voters in north carolina.vid is waiting on the independent line. he wants to talk to our pope. caller: good morning. i am an independent thinker. long time resident of north carolina. you have not really mentioned the onslaught that conservatives had to withstand from the media. just a few years ago, we had our first republican governor in north carolina. now have a republican legislature. all we are trying to do is level the field of ideas. i think you have been instrumental in doing that. i wonder seeking comment about the other forces that are impacting, if you well, the media, the newspapers. people like that. i will hang up. thank you. guest: well, in north carolina, like in many states, at the national level, our main newspapers do strongly leaned liberal or democratic. for years, the only endorsed democratic candidates. occasionally, now they endorse republicans. the media is predominately for liberal policies and of the democratic party. we have had a situation where the left started attacking republic

band in north carolina. thirty states constitutions of their states gay people don't have a right to marry. there's a culture war waged. as much as i think president obama did make a courageous move, there's still a lot of work to be done. >> megan, you make a great point here. karen i want to throw this out to you. we talk about the roll of african-americans and what they played in the roll of passing in north carolina, the voting there two to one to put the wording into the constitution of north carolina that marriage is between one man and one woman. you have family there, encouraged them to get out and defeat this. you also talked about the fact interracial marriage was outlawed in north carolina. do you think the president's decision is going to affect african-american turnout in those states like north carolina where he won 95% of the black vote back in '08. >> i think african-americans are going to -- even those who may disagree with the president on this issue and frankly any voter who disagrees with

north carolina is very much mixed, it's changing.why they want to have the convention there. and attitudes are changing in north carolina as they are everywhere else. but you have strong groups who will turn out against these kinds of measures. you have strong groups who will turn out for, if the circumstances are right. and the balance between the two, as we saw with this vote, doesn't always match the national polling. the national polling is moving in one direction. but you can get one cycle, one state where it moves badly against you. >> while this is percolating over here on the left, on the right, mitt romney having his own set of problems. rick santorum last night on jay leno, his first appearance since endorsing mitt romney via e-mail and he couldn't help but rip into the so-called romneycare of massachusetts. >> with romneycare, he was the author of that. and that was clearly a predecessor to obamacare that -- it's going to be harder for him to make that case. certainly i would have been a better person to make the case. but

people in south carolina don't respond to people like that. there is a reason why associates of companies in this state don't want to be involved with the unions. i think she explained that better than i ever could. >> greta: you know, i thought if you had a run-in, i would be like, okay, well, but the fact that you don't know or have you no recollection, it becomes so gratuitous and it becomes something deeper in the sense that, you know, it just shows that it's shirts against skins, so to speak. this is no effort to work toward resolving problems. this is going to be whose said -- side are you on? and here's the baseball bat. >> this is the same group that will talk about civility and the same group that will talk about, you know, wanting me not to talk about unions. the thing is, i am explaining, you know, from a policy standpoint, why i think the unions aren't needed in south carolina. they are going at me with a baseball bat. it shows the stark difference between businesses and unis and -- unions and unions bully and boss and try to get t

he's outside the courtroom in greensboro, north carolina. we have our jeffrey toobin, senior legal analyst, helping us along, along with ray lynn johnson and as well as our own sun yib hostin who has been good enough to join us. joe, first to you. it's hard to do it quickly, i know, and briefly. bring our viewers up to speed what we know right now and what we're waiting for. >> reporter: what we know is this is a six-count indictment against john edwards and the jury has indicated to the judge in the courtroom that they have reached a verdict on count three of that six-count indictment. that count three relates to a charge of accepting illegal campaign donations in the year 2008 from rachel "bunny" mellon, a 101-year-old woman who lives in upperville, virginia, very rich, it's right outside of middleburg, virginia, and she had taken upon herself to give jon edwards several hundred thousand dollars which according to one of her friends was griffin for a personal reason, though the prosecution has always contended that john edwards and others

. >>> once bitten, a north carolina man has a scary encounter with an alligator. >>> and last dance, legendary disco queen donna summer loses her battle with cancer. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this is "early today" for friday, may 18th, 2012. >>> hello, good morning i'm lynn berry. today we gip with the evidence. the state of florida released 200 pages of documents they will use in the trial of george zimmerman for the shooting death of trayvon martin most unseen by the public until now. curt gregory has the story. >> reporter: more than 180 pages of documents, witness statements and photographs were released late thursday by special prosecutor's office. the evidence they say support their charges against george zimmerman. never before seen photos of injuries allegedly sustained by the 28-year-old zimmerman during his confrontation with trayvon martin. and images of the scene where the shooting took place, on february 26th. zimmerman is charged with second degree murder, but has pleaded not guilty under florida's stand your ground law. also within the documents

north carolina. those are all states that are crucial to the president's re-election bid. now, with this position he has taken today, he is on the other side of the majorities in the states, voter whose voted to ban same sex marriage. also, while this is an evolution in then senator obama, the candidate, and president obama, in his early statements, as a candidate for state senator in illinois in 1996 he filled out a questionnaire at newspaper saying "i favor legalizing same-sex marriage," so this is full circle from where he was in 1996. >>shepard: a last the country has made it, as well. i am curious whether you believe in this time of rising debt and medical issues and all the rest, if republicans would go out on a limb and try to make this a campaign issue while sitting very firmly without much question on the wrong side of history? >>bret: i don't about that. you point to the poll, 50-48 which is very close and you are right, there has been an evolution on people's thinking but you still look at 32 states when put to a vote, a referendum in those states, and most rece

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some of the in north carolina with the reverend william barbara.erms of dialog. >> you get the last word for the segment and howard fineman gets to have all of the fun at romney head quarters today. >> thank you. >>> coming up, fox nation declared president obama has declared war on marriage. then an extraordinary thing. a fox news coast declares president obama to be -- his words -- on the right side of history. in tonight's rewrite. >>> and two north carolina women who have been together for 45 years will join me along with zach walls, the man's whose plea to iowa legislators on marriage equality was seen on this program and everywhere on the internet. coming up. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. with these new

north carolina can do better. against amendment one. >> stephanie: thank you. ♪ let's hear it for the boy ♪ >> stephanie: it would take away hospital visitation rights from unmarried straight couples as well. it is a slippery slope when you start deciding who can you can take rights away from. >> it is taking away rights that people are already afforded in north carolina. >> stephanie:y which is why it was a big deal here in california. tarin in los angeles. >> caller: i'm in support of gay rights and marriage equality. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: but i also want to say that hypocritical as it may be, black people are seriously religious. we want to rob a black neighborhood, you need to come on sunday between 8:00 and 1:00 p.m. >> stephanie: let me write that down. >> caller: it is a religious thing for a lot of african-americans but i also wanted to say gay does not equal tolerance. gay does not equal nonprejudice. so i think a lot of gay people voted for mccain in the last election. it doesn't necessaril

but louisa mccord is praised by politicians in south carolina. the greinke sisters are run out of the state, basically, and end up in philadelphia. and mary chestnut pours her heart out in a private diary that remains obscure and unknown until the late 20th century. so, are there any questions or comments about the pro slavery argument before we change topics? okay. well, let's talk about slavery, shall we. let's talk about the subject of slavery. there is a large scholarship on this topic. many, many, many books have been written about the subject of slavery. how many of you took history 151? okay. and did you discuss slavery in that course? 151? okay. good. occasionally i have students who say they took history 151 and then slavery got skipped over. i'm glad that hasn't happened. okay. let's paint in broad strokes a picture of the institution. this institution that is being attacked by abolitionists and defended by pro slavery figures. slavery is very old. it goes back to the ancient greek and romans, ancient egyptians, it's older than the unit